The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-04
Notes and Opinions.


THE general reports of trade the
past week have been more favorable.
THE New York World (democrat)
comedies that New Jersey will go re-
publican in 1888.
THE Brooklyn Union, prominent
mugwump paper in 1884, has been alb
sorbed by the republican Standard.
THE actual truth about the effect of
the interstate law thus far is that it
hurts some localities and helps others.
CONGRESSMAN BUCHANAN says New
Jersey republicans have no second
choice; they are for Blaine first, last
and always.
IN one year the car-coupler killed
459 and severely injured 4,073 railroad
employees. The coupler is more deadly
than the car-stove.
ARBOR DAY in the Western States is
very popular institution. In Kansas,
last week Thursday, it is estimated that
1000, 900 trees were planted.
IT is said, as proved by experiment,
that three steady drinkers as long as
they have money will fully support a
saloon.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
COLLECTOR B. b. SMALLEY has been
telling New York correspondent that
nineteen out of every twenty democrats
in Vermont are for Cleveland for a
second term.
THE diminishing of the democratic
majorities in Virginia, West Virginia,
North Carolina and Tennessee is due
to the fact that as iron furnaces 90 up
free-trade ideas go down.
A MOTION was made at the Ohio
Grand Army encampment to admit
such confederates as had seen the error
of their way. The idea was received
with bowls and Kisses and was with
drawn.
COLLECTOR SMALLEY says: "Mr.
Cleveland, in my judgment, is more
necessary to the democratic party than
the democratic party is to him." So
he is the "forlorn hope" of the de-
mocracy in 1888.
THE Boston Herald (mugwump),
speaking of Blaine, says: "Massa-
chusetts is not one of his sure states,
yet we shall not be at all surprised to
| find him carrying more of her dele
gates next year than he has ever had
before"
THE demand that the President shall
make some conspicuous civil service re-
form appointments soon, if he expects
to get the mugwump vote in 1888, con-
vinces the Washington Critic that that
contingent wants pay in advance for its
support.
Mrs. j. ELLEN FOSTER of Iowa is
announced to be in failing health, the
result of overwork, and friends have
made up purse to send her to Europe.
Mrs. Foster has for many years advo-
Gated the temperance cause on a COM
nonsense basis.
THE Toledo Blade is probably right
in its idea that the interstate railroad
commission should at once rescind their
suspension of the long and short-haul
clause, and let the law operate without
restriction or interference for a time
Let the people see its full effect, so that
they may be able to judge of it intelli'
gently.
SINCE President Cleveland has now
written eulogies of Albert Sidney John
ston and John G. Calhoun there does
not seem to be anything left for him
but to write few complimentary and
appreciative lines about Jefferson
Davis. He must feel that something
like that is necessary to bring the whole
South into his camp.-Philadelphio
Press.
THE Boston Journal, one of the few
leading papers in New England that
has persistently advocated and de-
Tended the interstate law, though il
appears to care very little how the law
affects other sections of the country